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Mon, 08/18/2008 - 22:21
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N. Korea slams delay in removal from U.S. terror list
principle to match action with action toward North Korea's denuclearization.
The commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency was North Korea's first public reaction about the issue after the initial target datepassed last week.
The United States has said the removal will not take place until a strictregime is established for verifying North Korea's nuclear information.
''The DPRK submitted an accurate and complete nuclear declaration,'' the commentary said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the DemocraticPeople's Republic of Korea.
''The U.S., however, has not honored its commitment to write the DPRK off the list of 'state sponsors of terrorism,' a key political compensation inconcluding the implementation of the agreement,'' it said.
''This is obviously a violation of the principle of 'action for action'essential for realizing denuclearization,'' the commentary said.
The six-way process involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, has hit a snag over ways to check North Korea's nuclear declarationsubmitted in late June.
While they have agreed to set up a regime to check information on the list, they have yet to agree on specifics such as who will visit which nuclear sitescarrying what kind of equipment.
The North Korean commentary did not make any reference to the verification regime, but rather accused the United States of using the issue of NorthKorea's human rights record to scuttle the six-way talks.
''We categorically dismiss this as a premeditated act of the U.S. to deliberately throw a hurdle in the process of the six-party talks,'' the commentary said of the U.S. call for an improvement in Pyongyang's human rightsrecord.
Following North Korea's submission of the nuclear declaration, U.S. President George W. Bush notified Congress of his intention to remove North Korea fromthe blacklist, enabling his administration to call for actual removal on Aug.
10 or after.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was initially expected to take stepsfor the removal on Aug. 11, as Aug. 10 fell on a Sunday.
The commentary carried by the official Korean Central News Agency was North Korea's first public reaction about the issue after the initial target datepassed last week.
The United States has said the removal will not take place until a strictregime is established for verifying North Korea's nuclear information.
''The DPRK submitted an accurate and complete nuclear declaration,'' the commentary said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the DemocraticPeople's Republic of Korea.
''The U.S., however, has not honored its commitment to write the DPRK off the list of 'state sponsors of terrorism,' a key political compensation inconcluding the implementation of the agreement,'' it said.
''This is obviously a violation of the principle of 'action for action'essential for realizing denuclearization,'' the commentary said.
The six-way process involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, has hit a snag over ways to check North Korea's nuclear declarationsubmitted in late June.
While they have agreed to set up a regime to check information on the list, they have yet to agree on specifics such as who will visit which nuclear sitescarrying what kind of equipment.
The North Korean commentary did not make any reference to the verification regime, but rather accused the United States of using the issue of NorthKorea's human rights record to scuttle the six-way talks.
''We categorically dismiss this as a premeditated act of the U.S. to deliberately throw a hurdle in the process of the six-party talks,'' the commentary said of the U.S. call for an improvement in Pyongyang's human rightsrecord.
Following North Korea's submission of the nuclear declaration, U.S. President George W. Bush notified Congress of his intention to remove North Korea fromthe blacklist, enabling his administration to call for actual removal on Aug.
10 or after.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was initially expected to take stepsfor the removal on Aug. 11, as Aug. 10 fell on a Sunday.
